Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly.

You are called to serve people and humanity with your talent

God design of you is divine act.

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

Ah, such a good pretty one.' There was a pause, 'You even got yourself dressed up.

If my stupidity makes you smile, I rather prefer to act always as stupid.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.